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Role description

Account Executive

Pylon logoPylonYC W23
TypeFull-time
SeniorityJunior
SponsorshipNo visa sponsorship
Salary$250,000–$300,000
LocationSan Francisco
Sales

Pylon is a Series B, AI-native B2B company building the next generation of customer support.

Legacy platforms like Zendesk and Salesforce Service Cloud were built around tickets. Pylon is built around accounts, real-time collaboration, and AI-driven customer intelligence.

This is a massive market with incumbents that weren’t designed for AI-first workflows.

Company

  • Series B, $51M raised

  • Backed by a16z, BCV, General Catalyst, Y Combinator

  • 90 employees

  • Sales team: 11 AEs, 6 SDRs

  • Offices in San Francisco and New York City

The Role

  • Own full-cycle sales for inbound and outbound opportunities

  • Source a portion of your own pipeline via outbound

  • Sell to B2B tech companies (<500 employees), with exposure to larger accounts over time

  • Run discovery, demos, trials (1–2 weeks), and close

Requirements

  • 2+ years of SaaS sales experience

  • Experience selling $10k–$100k ARR deals

  • Comfortable with outbound prospecting

  • Able to sell differentiated, technical products

  • Based in SF or NYC and willing to work in-person

Nice to Haves

  • Sold into competitive markets

  • Experience selling to Support, Success, or Post-Sales teams

  • Familiarity with AI-driven products

Sales Stack

  • Salesforce

  • Scratchpad

  • Salesbricks

Benefits

🏥 Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees

🏦 401(k) retirement plan

🚆 Commuter benefits

🌱 Parental leave

🏝️ 14 company holidays + unlimited PTO

🗺️ Annual offsite

🍽 Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office

🏋️ Fitness stipend

Relevant archetypes

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Company info

Pylon logo

Pylon

A modern, powerful support system built for B2B.

Pylon is the modern alternative to Zendesk, optimized for B2B. We bring together everything a post-sales team needs including a ticketing system, B2B omnichannel integrations (Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams), modern chat widget, AI knowledge base, AI agents, account intelligence, customer marketing, and more.

Private companySeries BYC W23
HQSan Francisco, United States
Size51-200 employees
IndustryTechnology, Information and Internet
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Funding
  • Series B · $31M · Aug 20, 2025
  • Series A · Aug 28, 2024
Investors
Bain Capital VenturesAndreessen Horowitz
Tech stackbootstrap, apollo-io, visual-studio-code, outreach, resonate, google-tag-manager, bridge, intercom, power-bi, grunt

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